The 1923–24 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented
Georgetown University
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college basketball
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season. John O'Reilly coached it in his eighth season as head coach. Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at
Ryan Gymnasium
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on the Georgetown campus in
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The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts /ref> It finished with a record of 6–3.
Season recap
O'Reilly, who had coached Georgetown for seven seasons from 1914–15 to 1920–21 with an overall record of 65-30 during those years, had missed the last two seasons due to illness. He returned this season for an eighth year coaching the team, which finished with a record of 6–3. O'Reilly would go on to coach another three seasons at Georgetown before retiring after the completion of the 1926–27 season.
During this era, faculty members opposed players missing classes for road games.The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 76. Bob Nork /ref> Furthermore, on-campus Ryan Gymnasium, where the Hoyas had played their home games since the 1914–15 season, had no seating, accommodating fans on a standing-room only-basis on an indoor track above the court. This precluded the accommodation of significant crowds, providing the self-sustaining Basketball Association with little revenue with which to fund the teams travel expenses and limiting Georgetown to a very limited road schedule between the 1918–19 and 1926–27 seasons – often only to an annual trip to
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and sometimes a single trip to
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to play schools there – averaging no more than three road games a year in order to keep travel expenses and missed classes to a minimum. The 1923–24 squad did not even make a New York or Pennsylvania trip; other than a journey across town to play at
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, it traveled only to Annapolis to play Navy during the season. One of its scheduled games was cancelled, and it played only nine games.
Georgetown defeated crosstown rival George Washington twice this season, culminating in a one-sided 54-8 win at Ryan Gymnasium, Georgetowns 12th straight win there against George Washington dating back to 1915. The wins gave the Hoyas a 19-game winning streak against George Washington, also dating back to 1915 and leading George Washington so suspend the series for 15 years; the two teams would not meet again until
1939
This year also marks the start of the World War II, Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
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A loss to Carson-Newman College on February 2, 1924, finally brought to an end a 52-game home winning streak at Ryan Gymnasium for the Hoyas dating back to a victory against Bucknell on the last day of the 1916–17 season. The streak had included notable victories over top-rated teams such as
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Kentucky
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Roster
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Georgetown players did not wear numbers on their jerseys this season. The first numbered jerseys in Georgetown mens basketball history would not appear until the 1933–34 season.
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politician, serving in the
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from 1937 to 1940 and as a
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